Exhibition catalogue Jonathan Lasker (Bilingual Edition)

Exhibition catalogue Jonathan Lasker (Bilingual Edition), presented at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint Etienne (12 march 2015 - 17 may 2015).

Jonathan Lasker was trained in the 1970’s movement of the young conceptual artists, yet rejects their conceptualism and gives his painting a new breath. He has developed a formal language from simple geometric elements while leaving plenty of space to color, material interplays and line

In the lineage of minimalist painters such as Frank Stella and Robert Ryman, Jonathan Lasker has sought a pictorial language which would be self-sufficient, the frontier between abstraction and figuration becoming intangible.

The artist himself said in 1986, at the occasion of his exhibit After abstraction in New-York: «I want a painting that’s operative. I’m seeking subject matter, not abstraction.» This exhibition shows approximately 20 pieces executed since 2000 and belonging to private collections from the United States and Northern Europe.